The REFORME PLUS is a 36 months’ ERASMUS + project which gathers 7 VET institutions and 6 European countries belonging to the transnational network REFORME, supported by social partners from the construction industry. All the project partners are heads of either national or regional networks and coordinate more than 300 initial and continuing training centers in the construction sector. The REFORME PLUS project aims at enhancing knowledge sharing, cooperation and peer-learning on apprenticeships by identifying good practices, and strengthening mutual learning. The exchanges of practices, experience and know-how and the learning activities will be focused on three themes: - Improving the image and the attractiveness of apprenticeship in the construction sector emphasizing the success of the careers in this sector. - Raising the quality of the training: to mutualize and exchange good practices in favor of European cooperation in order to guarantee the quality of the training and of the training paths delivered by the REFORME partners. - Developing new types of mobility: especially concerning company tutors and mentors; and long term mobility (at least 3 months). The partnership acknowledge that these three objectives cannot be reached without involving systematically the main actors and vectors of change present in the training centers and in the companies: training managers, trainers, mobility coach and company tutors. This is why the REFORME PLUS project foresee five learning activities, addressed to the managing director, to the trainers, to the mobility coach and to the company tutors. These publics will benefit of 5 workshop in order to develop the transversal competencies which will contribute to the internationalization of their institutions. These activities will be organized on a bilateral or trilateral basis and its results will be capitalized during the transnational meetings of the REFORME PLUS partnership. Hence, the direct operational objectives and target-groups of our REFORME PLUS project are: - To strengthen and extend the REFORME network; - To exchange and mutualize good practices among the network and then disseminate them; - To enhance and develop the internationalization strategies of the memberships’ organizations, that are all VET centers, and the VET centers of our national networks - for those who have one: France, Italy and Spain; - To develop the mobility actions of the membership’s VET centers; - To professionalize the trainers, teachers and managers of the membership’s VET centers. In order to reach these global and operational goals, the REFORME PLUS project will produce and disseminate at regional, national and European level the following deliverables: - A video promoting the image of apprenticeship in Europe and the trades of the construction sector, based on infographics or "computer-assisted digital imaging". This facilitates visual thinking by at presenting data, charts and graphs illustrating the efficiency of apprenticeship on youth employment. - Technical notes to provide propositions and fact-oriented contributions to the reflexions on the promotion of apprenticeship and of European mobility of apprentices. These could be double-check communication on the Jean Arthuis report; or documents proposing levers to overcome the obstacles to mobility for apprentices dedicated to European Alliance of Apprenticeship; or to improve the conditions of their development - always from a technical point of view. - Short guides for the conception and implementation of learning activities and mobility actions dedicated to VET staff: managers, trainers, mobility coach and company tutors. - A booklet describing the best practices of our VET centers in their process of internationalization. The partnership of REFORME PLUS project is composed by: CCCA-BTP (FR- leader): http://www.ccca-btp.fr/ CENFIC (PT): http://www.cenfic.pt/ Centre IFAPME Liège Huy Waremme (BE): http://www.centrelhw.ifapme.be/ FLC (ES): http://madrid.fundacionlaboral.org/ FLC ASTURIAS (ES): http://www.flc.es/ FORMEDIL (IT): http://www.formedil.it/
REFORME PLUS is a 36-month ERASMUS+ project that brought together 7 vocational training organisations from 6 European countries belonging to the transnational REFORME network and supported by the social partners of the construction sector. All the project partners are leaders of national or regional networks and bring together a total of more than 300 initial and continuing training centers in the construction sector. The REFORME PLUS project partnership is composed of : - CCCA-BTP (FR- leader) : http://www.ccca-btp.fr/ - BZB (DE) : www.bzb.de - CENFIC (PT) : http://www.cenfic.pt/ - Center IFAPME Liège Huy Waremme (BE) : http://www.centrelhw.ifapme.be/ - FLC (ES) : http://madrid.fundacionlaboral.org/ - FLC ASTURIAS (ES) : http://www.flc.es/ - FORMEDIL (IT) : http://www.formedil.it/ Our organizations are facing the same challenges: the constant need to promote apprenticeship training (or alternation depending on the country) in the building and public works sector, to work on the attractiveness of its branches, its trades and the associated careers. To do this, they must constantly improve the quality of the training provided and of training courses in general. In addition, we have all been involved for several years in international development, through mobility and cooperation projects. This allows us to pursue many objectives, in particular: - the internationalization of our young people's careers (and their skills, employability, openness, etc.); - the professionalization of our teams and the development of their skills, especially in teaching; - pedagogical innovation in our establishments, adaptation of our training to the needs of the job market. This non-exhaustive list allows us to measure the benefits of cooperation between our institutions. REFORME PLUS has allowed us to give a framework to the development of these collaborations, to strengthen our network and its activities and to increase the internationalization of our teams by involving them in the activities and mobilities of the project. The exchanges of practices, experiences and know-how and the learning activities have mainly focused on the following three themes: - Improving the image and attractiveness of apprenticeship in the construction sector by focusing on successful careers in the sector. - Increasing the quality of training: pooling and exchanging good practices for European cooperation in order to guarantee the quality of training and training paths delivered by REFORME partners. - Developing new types of mobility: in particular with regard to tutors in companies; and long-term mobility (at least 2 months). These three objectives could only be achieved by involving the main actors and vectors of change present in the training centers and in the companies: training managers, trainers and mobility coaches and company tutors/mentors. This is why the REFORME PLUS project planned five learning activities addressed to these participants for a total of 45 mobilities and at least as many local participants. Due to the impossibility to travel during the health crisis and especially during the second half of the project, 1 learning activity could be held face-to-face (Mobility of the 2 Spanish partners in France); 1 other was organized at a distance (Virtual mobility of the French partner in Belgium). They gave rise to 21 physical and virtual mobilities and mobilized a minimum of 27 local participants. These activities were composed of workshops and information and exchange sessions on the three themes mentioned above, aiming at developing and promoting the internationalization of the participating institutions. In addition, 4 transnational meetings were held; 3 face-to-face and 1 remote during the covid period. They gathered a total of 50 participants and made it possible to work on the three stated themes, including each time the intervention of an external expert on a given theme. REFORME PLUS has thus contributed to strengthening the links and exchanges between the partners of the Reforme network. The exchange of practices and the perspective generated by the interventions and workshops have fuelled the partners' reflections on these different subjects. The participants in the two learning activities greatly appreciated sharing and confronting their needs and issues, which are often common across borders, but in different contexts.